Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Child

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.

Philip Roth

The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10

Philip Roth

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

Peter Drucker

Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.

Peter Drucker

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

Peter Bart

The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

Peter Agre

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

Marlo Thomas

As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.

Maria Sharapova

When I make a commitment I stick to it.

Maurice Strong

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

Maurice Strong

Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders.

Marianne Williamson

Nobody has to tell me about the glories of the capitalist system. But what concerns me is that there no longer seems to be a commitment to make the opportunities afforded by technology and capitalism universally accessible.

Marianne Williamson

Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.

Michael Heizer

I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

Mason Cooley

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

Mason Cooley

By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

Mason Cooley

Commitments, not feelings, hold life together.

Michael Gerber

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

Michael Arndt

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

Mick Fleetwood

Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.

Michael Jordan

You have to be uncompromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared... Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant. There will be days when you don't feel on top of your game, or meetings in which you aren't at your best, but your commitment remains constant. No compromises.

Mark Pryor

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I don't want to be in a situation where I have to leave some other commitment or worse I am rude and someone else has to support my stuff. I stopped coding for Facebook a while ago.

Mark Zuckerberg

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

Ted Cruz

As conservatives, as Republicans, we keep winning elections. We got a Republican House, we've got a Republican Senate, and we don't have leaders who honor their commitments. I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

Ted Cruz

It is true that I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, because when I campaigned in Texas I told voters in Texas that I would oppose the federal government having the authority to detain U.S. citizens permanently with no due process. I have repeatedly supported an effort to take that out of that bill, and I honored that campaign commitment.

Ted Cruz

But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.

Thabo Mbeki

We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.

Margaret Halsey

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

David Trimble

If there is a real commitment, then getting rid of the weapons could not possibly be a problem,

Martin O'Neill

It has happened on more than one occasion now where the Rangers game gets dwarfed because of commitments elsewhere,

I just don't see the same commitment that we had early in the season. That's coaching. It's something I'm doing wrong.

I questioned if he'd be ready but by the end of the third day he had it down. It shows the level of commitment and work effort he has.